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" As a prime minister, my job is not to try and influence or opine on what a leader of a different country should be doing. "

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" The best counter to the kind of radicalization and marginalization that we've seen in other parts of the world is to create an inclusive society where everyone, including especially Muslim Canadians, have every opportunity to succeed, just like anybody else. "

" The Liberal Party will not vote - no Liberal member of Parliament will vote - to take away a woman's right to choose. "

" We were able to sign free trade agreement with Europe at a time when people tend to be closing off. "

" Parents are the centre of a person's solar system, even as an adult. My dad had a stronger gravitational pull than most, so his absence was bound to leave a deep and lasting void. "

" I became a high school teacher for many years because it was a very tangible, concrete way where I could make a difference, and quite frankly, the kids didn't care who my father had been, because it was late '90s; none of them were around or remembered my father. "

" Some people have come to admire Stephen Harper's style because he's standing at the top of the pyramid - that's not leadership to me. "

" There is no debate about whether or not climate change is happening. We will deal with it as a challenge. But we also take it as an opportunity to invest. "

" When I get out across the country and listen to people, the resentment that I see and the frustration that I see is that we have a generation of people who are fairly convinced that their kids are not going to have a better quality of life or a better future than they will. "

" We're actually able to approve pipelines at a time when everyone wants protection of the environment. We're being able to show that we get people's fears, and there are constructive ways of allaying them - and not just ways to lash out and give a big kick to the system. "

" My idea of freedom is that we should protect the rights of people to believe what their conscience dictates, but fight equally hard to protect people from having the beliefs of others imposed upon them. "

" I have a very difficult, high-pressured job. Everyone knows how challenging it is to balance family responsibilities with a job that takes me across the country and working extremely hard. "

" We're investing billions of dollars in housing, in home care on the medical side. We're investing billions of dollars in public transit that is not just creating good jobs now but is going to help people get to and from their good jobs in more reliable ways. "

" Since I became Liberal leader, I've focused on building a better Canada for the middle class. "

" My mom has always been so generous and so sensitive and so vulnerable and yet exudes so much strength. "

" We need the middle class to feel more confident about its prospects and about its future. We need to cut down on this anxiety that sees some people succeeding and the majority struggling - having to make choices between paying for their kids' education or saving for their own retirement. "

" My mother is brilliant but emotional and very much gregarious and connected to people. My father was brilliant but focused and driven and very narrow-casted. "

" A Canadian is a Canadian is a Canadian. And you devalue the citizenship of every Canadian in this place and in this country when you break down and make it conditional for anyone. "

" We provide our citizens upward mobility through economic opportunity. "

" I've made the commitment to Canadians that I'm going to stay myself, and I'm going stay open about it, and I'm going to make sure that the thoughtfulness with which I approach issues continues to shine through. "

" I have nothing against wealth; I believe that government has a role to play in creating it by supporting pro-growth policies. However, success comes with responsibility. "

" I think we're pretty much where we need to be on corporate taxes. "

" Canada's extraordinary success is that we have bound together a vast country with a set of shared ideas and beliefs. "

" I have spent an awful lot of time listening to Canadians, learning from them, working with them. "

" One of the things that we have to realize is we cannot get off gas, we cannot get off oil, fossil fuels tomorrow - it's going to take a few decades. Maybe we can shorten it, but there's going to have to be a transition time. "

" This is the kind of balance people expect: both environment and the economy - not one or the other. "

" We went through a long phase where we defined ourselves in opposition to other people and other countries. "

" You know what, Nickelback's alright. "

" People have to know that when you sign a deal with Canada, a change in governments won't immediately scrap the jobs and benefits coming from it. "

" I believe it is wrong for Canada to follow the path of countries who exploit large numbers of guest workers, who have no realistic prospect of citizenship. It is bad for our economy in that it depresses wages for all Canadians, but it's even worse for our country. "